Critical reviews of restoration, monitoring, or mitigation documents and plans.

Interpreting soils information for project analysis and alternative development.

Landscape evaluation using advanced remote sensing tools (TEUI toolkit, 3D visualization, viewshed analysis).

On-site soil and landscape investigations

Outlining and Determining Desired Future Condition: What is it? How will it look? How will we know when we get there? And if we are heading the right direction?

Trail management: What are some guiding principles in arid-land trail maintenance? What restoration techniques work? Where are our biggest problem areas? How can we get better integration of specialists' and management's concerns?

The importance of soils in our management activities: How do we better use existing soils data in our management decisions? What are the soils and landscapes in our Units, and what ways could we better display them?

Habitat modeling now does not generally consider soils and their effects: How can we make soils data available in a form that will be better used?

Bighorn sheep and other species (such as Mexican Spotted Owl): How can we integrate the experts' technical opinions and data to synthesize information that can be used in habitat analysis? How do we integrate cross boundary data (BLM and NPS)?

Tech Transfer: How can we better package and present technical information for management?

Invasives: How can we better estimate and map the extent of the invasive problem? How can we report our successes and the extent in a spatially explicit way?

NEPA and Proposed Uses: How do we examine and illustrate the potential impacts of new proposed uses of our Units, e. g. base jumping? How do we integrate management data with scientific data to estimate where and how much?

Specialist Data: How can we better synthesize, spatially link, and present our specialist monitoring data (especially the piles in file drawers)?

Vegetation change using remote sensing: How can satellite data help us show effects of reducing grazing? And even show earlier spring greenup with climate change?

Road Restoration: Where should we re-route roads and why? What factors should we consider? How do we spatially display our logic and decisions?

Synthesizing existing data and mapping it

Facilitating meetings with staff and specialist to integrate information

Reviewing and providing technical data (such as trail restoration methods)

Updating and making your landscape/geology/habitat/soils data more available and visible

Reviewing and applying models for various habitat parameters

Working with your scientists and specialists to synthesize and spatially link
data

You might want a series of maps, all presentation quality, on the resources in each of your Admin Units, spatially highlighting the themes we have talked about. I know your GIS tech. could do that, but he/she probably is buried in other projects. However, it might be good to be able to present in Powerpoints and on the walls, especially for park management. It could include landscapes and vegetation to illustrate some of the resource data you have.

More problems I could help solve:

Your GIS data are not well-enough organized to use in supporting your I and M needs and standards. They are out-of-date and hard to use.

Your trails inventory needs GPS’ing and updating (from field to final maps and data to NPS or FS standards).

You have had a 200 acre wildfire, and need it’s actual extent, severity of burn, and probable effects mapped and documented.

You have a small project NEPA evaluation, but need soils, vegetation, landscape, information, and a science-based evaluation of alternatives.

Your wildlife specialist has paper maps of critical habitat, but needs to create high-quality spatial data and apply it in a small project.

You need Regional GIS data from multiple agencies to support your monitoring on your “Vital Signs” monitoring projects.

You have old, but good quality monitoring data in old document formats and need them in a National database structure.

You need a friendly ACCESS database to record your archeological site data, compatible with and uploadable to Regional centers.

You need soils expertise to implement your soil structure and viability monitoring protocol, or to update your soil inventory.